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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yield protection. They make the crappy decision he likely would not attend...which given that out of state and private schools can be from $60-80K for donut hole families is really crappy.[/quote]

More likely there was some other reason. Shit essays, most likely.[/quote]

What are the chances a kid with great stats and achievements writes an essay SO terrible it negates the more important factors??? None. [/quote]

Uh a kid with great stats might have horrible social skills & a complete lack of self-awareness. That could be obvious in an essay.[/quote]

Or a lack of empathy, or simple lack of passion. Schools don't just want high-performing kids but kids who perform well because they care deeply about their interests.[/quote]

This is the dumbest BS I've ever heard!  So why the F should a college care why a kid performs as long as he does?! The 4.6 kid shows that he can perform through his grades (and there aren't enough fufu APs so he must have taken some tough ones).  What in the application led the idiot AO to think this kid doesn't have 'passion'? passion for what?  Or that the kid lacks empathy?

The kid is likely Asian or White and this is a clear case of yield protection (I know, they don't do yield protection  :roll:   You idiots can believe that).[/quote]

Plenty of schools DO care about what sort of human being you are....[/quote]

Awesome!  Would love to hear about how they determine that?  Would be great if these fools can be forced to share on demand (for a fee of course) how an application was reviewed, all the notes associated with it, etc. so they can decide if they were assessed fairly.  I bet that there's nothing fancy going on here.  Most of these AOs are underpaid temps and they likely don't care enough to delve into the finer aspects of humanity.  Don't kid yourself..  [/quote]

Know how I know you don't know any AOs and have never had a substantive conversation with one?[/quote]

Know how I know you don't know how to answer any questions and use deflection to feel good? [/quote]

But you are the one making the claim that "[i]Most of these AOs are underpaid temps and they likely don't care enough to delve into the finer aspects of humanity[/i].".  Show some evidence of that please.

You can't because the opposite is true.  Most AOs I have met work hard and genuinely care and try to do a good job based on their given institutional preferences, despite being underpaid.  You don't like them, and I won't make the same mistake as you and speculate why.[/quote]

There's enough out there (google) about temps being hired to review college admissions applications.  There was a thread on that not too long ago.

Either way, you never answered my simple question "How do AOs (even the non-temps) divine someone's 'lack of passion, lack of empathy' or determine 'what sort of  human' a child is"?

As for yield protection, it does happen at UVA AND Virginia Tech.  Not officially, but know enough kids who got into much better schools over the past 3 years that didn't make it into these two - same common app essay, similar good responses to individual questions and with stats above the cutoffs at both schools.  Just parroting the party line doesn't change reality.  Anecdotal? yes..but enough anecdotes become data and data over time shows trend.  I've seen it.

Don't really give a S whether you agree or not, but for awareness of parents with kids who may apply to these schools in the future.[/quote]

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